Word: jerseyed
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Died. Arthur T. Vanderbilt, 68, famed lawyers' lawyer and constitutionalist chief justice (since 1948) of the New Jersey Supreme Court (who simplified and reformed the state court structure and procedures), onetime (1938) president of the American Bar Association, longtime (34 years) professor and dean'(1943-48) at New York University's Law School; of a rupture of the aorta; in Summit...
Downwind. In Jersey City, police got a phone tip from Kenneth Thompson, 21, of a tavern robbery by a "good-looking guy," confirmed the theft, tracked down handsome Tipster Kenneth Thompson...
...Appropriations to New York's Ives. Then, without benefit of further flipping, it gave Joe's place on the Government Operations Committee to Indiana's Homer Capehart, normally an Eisenhower backer, and Joe's place on the Rules Committee to an all-out Ikeman, New Jersey's Clifford Case (who also picked up the third-ranking spot on Banking and Currency which Ives vacated in exchange for the Appropriations post). That still left the Senate with a pair of vacancies to fill on committees from which Cliff Case had departed: 1) District of Columbia...
...Jersey City's moldy grey City Hall last week, the word went out: "The Journal gets nothing from us." In the heat of an election victory over four of the five city commission candidates hand-picked by Democratic Boss John V. Kenny, the new administration, led by State Senator James F. Murray Jr. (TIME, May 27), had vowed revenge on the Jersey Journal (circ. 98,565), which had fiercely supported the Kenny ticket during the election campaign. To pry the news out of City Hall, Journal Editor Gene ("Lucky") Farrell sent over four additional staffers-to no avail...
...Journalists except Gene Farrell, able Editor Farrell was equally firm in declining the invitation. "A reporter normally gets interviews," he said. "These are normal times." In fact, the situation was so abnormal that the Journal was forced to run United Press stories on city government developments in Jersey City; new subscriptions had dropped off 70% since the election. The rival Hudson Dispatch (circ. 56.825), which had expressed less vigorous opposition to the Murray ticket, not only got the run of City Hall but was expected this week to land the city government's legal advertising, a plum that...